1. Target Search Student: Freedwell Shingange Supervisor: Prof Antoine Bagula Co-Supervisor: Mehradad Ghaziasgar

2. Overview  Project Description  Requirement Gathering  Requirement Analysis  Tools

3. Project Description

4. Requirement Gathering  Overview of the problem  What is expected  What is not expected

5. Requirement Analysis  Automation of Flight  Navigation  Data Collection   Gateway   Sensor

6. Tools  Parrot Bebop Drone  Computer with wireless connection  Wireless sensor networks  Node.js

7. Project plan Term 1 Learn how to fly the drone Review the project scope Do research on drones Term 2 Learn node.js Program the drone Indoor testing Term 3 Outdoor testing Term 4 User’s guide Testing document

8. References  Boyers OH. “Ar Drone: A conceptual view of target recognition and tracking”. BSc (Hons), Rhodes University, October 2013.  Lehata MM. “Autonomous Drone Flight”. BSc (Hons), UWC, 2013.  Jeremy CG. “Perching using a quadrotor with on board sensing”. 2011  Bagula, A. Multi Drone Task Allocation, University of the Western Cape, 2015.  Rigatos, GG. “Distributed filtering over sensor networks for autonomous navigation of UAVs”, Intelligent Service Robotics, vol. 5, Issue 3, pages 179-198, 2012.  A. Bachrach, A. de Winter, Ruijie He, G. Hemann, S. Prentice, N. Roy. “Range - robust autonomous navigation in gps-denied environments”.pages 1 –20, may 2010.

9. Questions